Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Diane Wakoski

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Rainn Wilson

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Danish proverb

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

Rainn Wilson

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Walter Isaacson

Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers.

Kobayashi Issa

Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed.

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